"The appointment was immensely popular, helping to unite the country behind the war while convincing doubters in and out of Parliament of the Liberal government's determination".

From Gerard DeGroot's "Blighty: British Society in the Era of the Great War"

Might be the dullest sentence in the whole book

"So you'd better get used to it."

Accidents Waiting To Happen
Simon Wood

Corrie Ten Boom- The Hiding Place

"One question ached through all of Holland like a long-held breath: Would there be war?"

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

"The old man said nothing."

My nearest book was my desk diary - no page numbers but it is probably something like 'Thursday 7'

OK, so I reached behind me and blindly reached for a book.
The sentence is "It gets old", from Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich.

"Thirdly, he developed a new type of sculpture - the small-scale bronze, intended, like the cabinet picture, for the private collector"

From the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art & Artists

"Still I thought that Helen Burns considered things by a light invisible to my eyes." ~~ Jane Eyre (always on my nightstand)

"No more of that" said Prospero: "Let us not remember our troubles past,since they so happily have ended ">>>

"The Tempest" by Shakespeare.

"Actually, I don't."

Double Cross by James Patterson

The closest is in spanish so I had to cheat and look for the second closest!
"As a beast, the forces of life aligned him with them; as a man, he has not yet wholly learned to aligned himself with the forces"
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

it just happened to be a very good one now that I come to think about it, just as Al-Mohajerah's (but then Shakespeare is infallible!!)

The very nearest book is Webster's 11th dictionary. May I pass on that one? Wedged between it and a battered old Oxford Concise is The Golden Ratio. Alas! Not a novel or play or book of poems but "just" a math book, a fascinating one, in my opinion, by Mario Livio.

Line 5 of page 61 reads,
"journal Crux Mathematicorum in 1978 that the seked theory is very prob-"

In context, from lines 2-6:
"On the other hand, Roger Herz-Fischler, who examined no fewer than nine theories that have been advanced for the Great Pyramid's design, concluded in a paper that appeared in the journal Crux Mathematicorum in 1978 that the seked theory is very probably the correct one."

I loved this!! Turned out some sentences were great even without context, so we can even interpret them as we want.

Nice idea Copago!

Thanks Nancy - but I probably pinched the idea from somewhere else anyway.

"Sometimes I would sing it to him twice, careful to get the croaky bits correct the second time around."

April Fool's Day - Bryce Courtenay.

"But what is the game?"

I swear by all the Beagles in Beagleland that that is in the exact place! Ngaio Marsh 'Death and the Dancing Footman' - ISBN 0-00-616903-3
Cool, Copago!

I've just reached page 61 of my current book. The fifth sentence is:

"Other things he often stressed to them were that his initials stood for Kumar Shri, that this was a title meaning Prince, and that it was wrong to call him Mr Ranjitsinhji"

("Ranji: The Strange Genius of Ranjitsinhji" by Simon Wilde)

For the benefit of members who live in places where cricket is unknown, I ought perhaps to explain that Ranjitsinhji was a great Indian cricketer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

It is deposited on the sufaces adjacent to the cell and gives rise to a corrosion problem.

Electrical Principles for the Electrical Trades

I wonder what I can find around the computer Next Time!

"It will not be a democracy if it is not equally successful in respecting the rights of minorities."
-From the book We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda by Phillip Gourevitch.

It's not an upbeat book, obviously, but it's a good example of how books can bring something you may not know much about to the forefront of your mind and make you want to do something more than sit around and read.

Exodus 3:15 God also said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation. NIV translation

"MEN ARE FROM MARS, Women Are from Venus", by John Gray.

Under the headings..."Women say things like this" and "Men respond like this"

"Nothing is working" (Woman)

"Are you saying it's my fault?" (Man)

From "Guards! Guards!" by Terry Pratchett

"Look, it's like this every night in here" said Nobby.

From "Lone Survivor" by Marcus Luttrell.

"Plots, plans, villainy, terrorism, countless schemes to attack the West, especially the United States.

From "Revolutionary Road"

"I must've heard those same words fifty times."

From Nora Roberts (J.D.Robb)
Salvation in Death - re children screaming and playing.....

"They can't have sex or alcohol, so they scream, run, punch each other as a kind of orgasmic or tranquilizing replacement."